https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Adolf_Hitler


photo: Front page of the US Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes on 2 May 1945

Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin[a] after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. Eva Braun, his longtime companion and wife of one day, also committed suicide by cyanide poisoning.[b] In accordance with Hitler’s prior written and verbal instructions, that afternoon their remains were carried up the stairs and through the bunker’s emergency exit to the Reich Chancellery garden, where they were doused in petrol and burned.[1][2] The news of Hitler’s death was announced on German radio the next day, 1 May.[3]

  • Maalus@lemmy.world
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    What propaganda? Russians were an absolute wave of destruction comming through. There is a reason people prefferred to surrender to the brits or US

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      the nazis were talking about fighting “bolshevism” before the war even broke out.

      • Maalus@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, so were the Poles and most of Europe. The soviet union wasn’t a “role model” country, it was a totalitarian regime.